diff --git a/doc/intro.rst b/doc/intro.rst
index e1887ef91..a99d4bbfd 100644
--- a/doc/intro.rst
+++ b/doc/intro.rst
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Citing eXSpy
 
 If eXSpy has been significant to a project that leads to an academic
 publication, please acknowledge that fact by citing it. The DOI in the
-badge below is the `Concept DOI <https://help.zenodo.org/faq/#versioning>`_ of
+badge below is the `Concept DOI <https://support.zenodo.org/help/en-gb/1-upload-deposit/97-what-is-doi-versioning>`_ of
 eXSpy. It can be used to cite the project without referring to a specific
 version. If you are citing eXSpy because you have used it to process data,
 please use the DOI of the specific version that you have employed. You can
diff --git a/exspy/misc/eels/eelsdb.py b/exspy/misc/eels/eelsdb.py
index 709399d38..b125378cf 100644
--- a/exspy/misc/eels/eelsdb.py
+++ b/exspy/misc/eels/eelsdb.py
@@ -248,8 +248,14 @@ def eelsdb(
     if show_progressbar is None:
         show_progressbar = preferences.General.show_progressbar
 
+    headers = {
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
+    }
     request = requests.get(
-        "https://api.eelsdb.eu/spectra", params=params, verify=verify_certificate
+        "https://api.eelsdb.eu/spectra",
+        params=params,
+        verify=verify_certificate,
+        headers=headers,
     )
     spectra = []
     jsons = request.json()
@@ -271,7 +277,9 @@ def eelsdb(
                 f"Permalink: {json_spectrum['permalink']}"
             )
             continue
-        msa_string = requests.get(download_link, verify=verify_certificate).text
+        msa_string = requests.get(
+            download_link, verify=verify_certificate, headers=headers
+        ).text
         try:
             s = dict2signal(parse_msa_string(msa_string)[0])
             emsa = s.original_metadata
diff --git a/upcoming_changes/66.bugfix.rst b/upcoming_changes/66.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..efbabdcbc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/upcoming_changes/66.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix blocked eelsdb queries
\ No newline at end of file